Bible Strands
Acts 20:30
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Ephesian elders during his farewell journey, warning them of the danger that will emerge after his departure. The words — ἀναστὴσονται (anastēsontai) literally means “will rise up,” and διεστραμμένα (diestrammena) denotes “perverted” or “distorted” things. The thread — This warning echoes the rejection of sound doctrine in 2 Timothy 4:3, the shipwrecked faith from rejecting conscience in 1 Timothy 1:19, and the mind’s utterance of perversities in Proverbs 23:33. Why it lands — It demands sober vigilance against internal corruption of the gospel and requires readers to anchor themselves in the original teaching rather than following new distortions.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Cross-references
- 1 Timothy 1:19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
- 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
- Proverbs 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
- 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
- Proverbs 19:1 Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
- Acts 11:26 and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
- Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
- Matthew 26:21 And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
- Acts 5:36 Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.